With the development towards comprehensive and more sophisticated border control regimes, the problem of protection seekers’ access to EU territory has increasingly come into focus. Disorderly movement is presently the main avenue to safety in the EU, and human smugglers act as important...

"We study the returns on education in Europe in a comparative perspective. We extend the model of de la Fuente [(2003). Human Capital in a Global and Knowledgebased Economy. part II: Assessment at the EU Country Level. Report for the European Commission], by estimating the values of the relevant...

"Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"In recent years the availability of new industry-level data allowed to evaluate the impact of labour market policies more consistently than previous standard cross-country studies. In this paper an industry-level panel is exploited to evaluate the impact of Employment Protection Legislation...

"Disability insurance - the insurance against the loss of the ability to work - is a substantial part of social security expenditures in many countries. The benefit recipiency rates in disability insurance vary strikingly across European countries and the US. This paper investigates the extent...

Um empirisch fundierte Aussagen zu den Entwicklungspotentialen von vier ausgewählten atypischen Arbeitsformen machen zu können, wurde 1989/90 eine international angelegte Repräsentativbefragung durchgeführt. Befragt wurden Manager und - soweit vorhanden - Arbeitnehmervertreter in 3520...

Aufgabe des Workshops, über den berichtet wird, war es, Hintergründe, Ursachen und Begleitumstände der "Geheimnisse" des Erfolgs anderer Länder in der Beschäftigungspolitik zu erhellen, um nach Möglichkeit etwas für die Lösung der deutschen Arbeitsmarktprobleme zu lernen und Konsequenzen...